{"id":8500,"date":"2023-06-12T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:08:40","slug":"night-of-the-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/night-of-the-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Of The Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_empty_space td_block_wrap vc_empty_space tdi_6 \"  style=\"height: 32px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Photographer\/Creative Director NATASHA WILSON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photographer\/Creative Director: Natasha Wilson @natashawilson.co<br \/>\nModels: Seema Hari @seemahari Sonaz Izadi @sonazizadi Asy Saavedra @asysaavedra Chloe Saavedra @chloesaavedra Maia Saavedra @maiasaavedra_photo Angel Lin @angelmydarling Four @4likefour<br \/>\nCaris Kuhn @rakuhnn Mack @mackandgold Morgan Roberts @really.not.sure Jetta Juriansz @shmetta Michelle Heb\u00e9rt @michellehebertofficial<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gowns: Michelle Heb\u00e9rt @michellehebertofficial<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_separator td_block_wrap vc_separator tdi_8  td_separator_solid td_separator_center\"><span style=\"border-color:#EBEBEB;border-width:1px;width:100%;\"><\/span>\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.td_block_separator{\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  align-items: center;\r\n                  margin-bottom: 38px;\r\n                  padding-bottom: 10px;\r\n                }.td_block_separator span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  display: block;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  height: 1px;\r\n                  border-top: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_left span{\r\n                  margin-left: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_right span{\r\n                  margin-right: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_dashed span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dashed;\r\n                }.td_separator_dotted span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dotted;\r\n                }.td_separator_double span{\r\n                  height: 3px;\r\n                  border-bottom: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  height: 20px;\r\n                  overflow: hidden;\r\n                  border: 0;\r\n                  color: #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span > span{\r\n                  position: absolute;\r\n                  top: -30px;\r\n                  left: 0;\r\n                  right: 0;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  height: 13px;\r\n                  width: 98%;\r\n                  border-radius: 100%;\r\n                }html :where([style*='border-width']){\r\n                    border-style: none;\r\n                }\n<\/style><\/div>[vc_column_text]<span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">It<\/span> begins in places of shadow, in woods and on the east sides of mountains, the far side of the beach\u2019s sand: The air is getting softer, velvetier. The hard white light of afternoon is relaxing into gold, and darkness is starting to assert itself in a tapestry of pink and teal and Prussian blue, spangled with stars, lit again by the mirror of the moon\u2014and then by elemental fire, a wheel of it, a blaze, a bank of candles.<\/p>\n<p>This is Midsummer\u2019s Eve. And you\u2019re probably dancing by now.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019ve already been dancing all day, skipping as you weave long ribbons and flower garlands around the tallest tree or wooden pole within reach. But now it\u2019s time to let go of the ribbons, gather your magic into both hands, let it make its bright way into the night. Tonight even the kindliest witch has a wild heart. So take off the apron; let down your hair. Your sisters are waiting.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The quick night falls amid the northern hemisphere\u2019s longest days of the year. In the third week of June, as medieval poets described it, the jewel of the sun rests overhead and beams down on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>We expect to go a bit mad in the sun\u2014drunk with light. But Midsummer\u2019s Eve, the shortest night, is even more intoxicating than the longest day, because witches thrive on imbalance. What throws ordinary mortals off kilter, confuses them, makes them lose sleep\u2014all this only increases a witch\u2019s power and sense of possibility. Forget the equinoxes, so tidily divided between light and dark; the imbalance of solstice gives us something we can really work with. And with so little darkness around, its magic is concentrated, palpable to any with the gift to recognize it.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s dance till we\u2019re giddy, and then dance even wilder. Share light within our circle of kindred spirits. Pluck a bride on her way to her wedding and make her dance till she forgets she ever felt any other arms around her. Conjure flames from the ground and use them for curing\u2014or cursing, if we need to. We\u2019ll fan the bonfire\u2019s flames with our skirts; we\u2019ll sing of the old gods and goddesses, and roar at mortals\u2019 acts of daring. This is a night of courage and conjuring, summoning the power deepest within us and using it to call down the stars. In the hour of the witch, in the night of the Fire is transformative, and taming it is one of the witch\u2019s first tasks. If it leaps beyond her control, it will gobble everything in its path. But in her wise-woman hands, it can burn off useless dead growth. She can rise from the ashes stronger than ever.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]It is fitting that elemental fire has been a part of Midsummer at least since Celtic times, as if some canny celebrants wish to prolong the light, and enlightenment, even further. Or as if some are afraid of the brief night\u2019s intense power.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a practicing pagan, your solstice celebration, Litha, has its origins in the battle between the Oak King\u2019s light and the Holly King\u2019s darkness. Tradition might have you jumping over or through flames for good luck, or rolling a wheel of fire down a hillside. But you could take a quieter contemporary approach and find a spot for meditation, then join a spirit gathering. Hold a handfasting ceremony: In the pagan calendar, this is a fortuitous day for plighting your troth. Love is a form of light.<\/p>\n<p>We know the science of solstice, of course. As our Earth travels its elliptical path around the sun, it wobbles and tilts on its axis. So around June 20 or 21, the northern hemisphere receives the sun\u2019s rays at a 90-degree angle. This is the sun\u2019s zenith, its highest and proudest, most powerful point. In Latin, the sol (sun) is at stitium\u2014a standstill\u2014as if it can\u2019t bear to travel on; it must gaze down on the beloved Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but I\u2019m leaning to poetry again. The simplest fact is these are the longest days and the shortest nights the northern hemisphere experiences all year.<\/p>\n<p>But solstice is not quite the same as Midsummer\u2019s Day\u2014not according to modern recordkeepers. That date is officially June 24, coinciding with the Christian feast of Saint John the Baptist. Officially. This calendar isn\u2019t fooling us. We know that the summer solstice and Saint John\u2019s have deeply entwined roots, just as the winter solstice (December 20) and Christmas are at heart one and the same. As the terms have been used since the 10th century, Midsummer, Saint John\u2019s, and solstice are interchangeable.<\/p>\n<p>If we dig deep into the pre-Christian past, we find only two seasons: summer and winter, the times of warm light and cold darkness. Giving equal space on the calendar to the months in which leaves generally spring up from the earth or fall down into it\u2014that\u2019s just some newfangled imposition of mathematical fairness\u2014perhaps to sidestep the fact that the moments of imbalance are the poles that structure our year.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot bury a witch\u2019s power in the grid of days and weeks that hangs on the wall. Visit Stonehenge and watch the shadows trace out the old solar calendar. They\u2019ll place Midsummer firmly between planting and harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Growth is one of the deepest mysteries of all.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8502&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]And speaking of poles, people who dwell above the Arctic Circle may not see nighttime at all when their patch of the Earth has tilted directly beneath the sun. Meanwhile, in Antarctica it\u2019s winter\u2014nothing but night, for days, even weeks. For your next Midsummer, travel to one of those extremes and let yourself fill up with light. Or darkness. It will be an experience like no other.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky is the spellcaster who lives in the tropics, where Midsummer reaches wide to embrace two heavily enchanted moments, usually in May and July. There, the Earth\u2019s wobble makes the sun reach its zenith twice. In this double Midsummer, objects that point straight up cast utterly no shadow. Stand at your tallest then, and you are alone \u2026 or you are at one with everything.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient Hawaiian, the term for this interlude was kau ka la i k\u0101 lolo, \u201cthe sun rests on the brains,\u201d and it was considered a time of immense possibility, when your mana, your power and prestige, surged to join with the universe. Any wish could come true\u2014you could pluck it out of thin air and make it real.<\/p>\n<p>These days, people call the phenomenon L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon, meaning \u201ccruel sun.\u201d But you can always choose to use your mana in benevolence.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever you observe the solstice, Midsummer\u2019s Eve and Day are a potent time for healing. You might spend the night gathering certain herbs, or grinding and burning what you already have, to work a cure during the day. This was the practice in the Middle Ages, when a healer might use solstice powers to cure blighted cattle, for example, or blindness, or melancholy.<\/p>\n<p>One little spell is easy for anyone to work. Bright yellow Saint John\u2019s wort blooms at this time of year and got its name from the belief that harvesting it on his feast day gives the flowers and leaves special potency for treating depression and physical cuts and wounds. You don\u2019t have to ingest it to reap the benefits for your mood. Decorate your home with the yellow blossoms; toss a handful into your fire to bring happiness.<\/p>\n<p>If you crave revelation tonight, take a star bath\u2014lying as close to naked as you dare, letting the starshine soak into your skin. The stars\u2019 wisdom will become yours for the year. Or if you want to make a simple statement of joy, light some sparklers and fireworks. You\u2019ve already sensed that the Fourth of July is a historicized Midsummer. The same goes for the French Bastille Day, July 14. This is the time of year to celebrate overturning the old rule and re-creating the world. By torchlight.<\/p>\n<p>To honor history\u2019s rebels, you might tie a straw manikin to the mast of a raft and set her on fire, then push her out to sea\u2014no, wait, that\u2019s what the hygge-loving Danes do every Saint John\u2019s Eve, as they try symbolically to rid their shores of witches. Or, fine, as they (in a gentler explanation of the tradition) respectfully commemorate the witch burnings of the 1500s and 1600s, when the witches really were given this sort of Viking sacrificial rite. Nowadays, the fires help the hekse fly to Bloksbjerg, Germany, for a grand gathering of their kind.<\/p>\n<p>While the rafts celebrate the marriage of fire and water, neighbors drink beer, eat herring, and sing. Meanwhile, true flesh-and-blood witches stand along the pebbly shores and spit toward the flames to make them flicker. They laugh at anyone who ever thought that burning a doll could chase their magic away. They leap onto ancient dolmens, the stone tables that mark passageways to 5,000-year-old graves, and they remark, Doesn\u2019t the coastline look pretty with so many rafts ablaze?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s after midnight. The rafts have sunk or burned themselves out. The townspeople go home, brush their teeth, go to bed, safe from bewitchment for another year. Truly? They don\u2019t know that down on the beach, we are dancing again.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8503&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>A NOTE FROM COVER PHOTOGRAPHER NATASHA WILSON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lately I\u2019ve been inspired by movie stills that capture intense moments in the middle of a film. I pulled examples from films like Suspiria and Midsommar to simulate at our bonfire. It was captivating to go back and forth between different emotions with all the women, most of whom were strangers to one another at the start. I directed them over the sound of the waves as the sun set, and then, once it was dark, our friend Mack brought out her guitar. By the end of our gathering, there were definitely new bonds forming.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn\u2019t realize was the impact that these images and videos would have once I shared them. It seemed to ignite a creative burst; I was receiving tons of shares and reposts of my series and attached to them were powerful, elevating words. 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